From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 12 20:24:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA1037B401; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from area51.slashnet.org (area51.slashnet.org [209.150.101.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5BD43FAF; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smkelly@FreeBSD.org) Received: from edgemaster.zombie.org (ip68-13-71-251.om.om.cox.net [68.13.71.251]) by area51.slashnet.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B43149FDA; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 23:24:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by edgemaster.zombie.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 43ED539839; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:24:26 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:24:25 -0500 From: Sean Kelly To: Don Lewis Message-ID: <20030713032425.GA77413@edgemaster.zombie.org> References: <200307130136.h6D1arM7023826@gw.catspoiler.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200307130136.h6D1arM7023826@gw.catspoiler.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sporadic disk syncing failures when shutting down X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 03:24:28 -0000 On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 06:36:53PM -0700, Don Lewis wrote: ... > Stopping inetd. > Shutting down daemon processes:Jul 12 09:19:40 scratch upsmon[492]: upsmon parent: exiting (child exited) > killall: warning: kill -TERM 492: No such process > killall: warning: kill -TERM 488: No such process > healt Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...stopped > Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped > Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...stopped > > syncing disks, buffers remaining... 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 > giving up on 54 buffers > Uptime: 6m42s > Terminate ACPI > Rebooting... > > Each time this has happened, fsck finds and nukes a bunch of empty > directories. The last time this happened, the /etc/rc.d/yp* files that > mergmaster updated were missing after the reboot and fsck had done its > work. Nothing has ever shown up in lost+found. > > Has anyone else seen this? I have seen this a lot, but not as much lately. Sadly, I don't have any more data than you on why it happens. I've seen it give up on a rather frighteningly large number of buffers before, though... -- Sean Kelly | PGP KeyID: D2E5E296 smkelly@FreeBSD.org | http://www.sean-kelly.org/